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50 Rare Historical Photos. Music: "Exactly Like You". Click to Advance Slides. Alfred Hitchcock serving tea to Leo, the MGM lion. 1957. Actual photo of passengers leaving the Titanic, while a priest prays for the first victims who are stacked on one side.
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50 Rare Historical Photos Music: "Exactly Like You" Click to Advance Slides
Actual photo of passengers leaving the Titanic, while a priest prays for the first victims who are stacked on one side.
The first airplane flight in history. Orville Wright flew for 9 minutes and 45 seconds in 1911.
Last known photo of Samurai in Japan. By then most had already cut their hair 1868
Nagasaki atomic bomb, transported to the plane that would launch in a few days 1945
A London policeman gives street directions address \to women of Burma 1935
Marriage of Joseph Goebbels. Hitler was his best man and can be seen further back with a hat 1931
Pyramid made out of captured German helmets in the First World War - New York, 1918
The California Gold Rush left hundreds of boats from around the globe abandoned in the port of San Francisco, 1850
Young Osama Bin Laden in a cave while fighting the invading Soviet forces. Jalalabad region, Afghanistan, 1988
German prisoners of war marching under the supervision of Soviet soldiers, 1944. The Soviet woman is showing a ’dulya’ (the finger) with her hand to the Germans as they pass by.
A miniature, fully functional replica of a Cadillac that was made for the British Royal family of Siam. 1913
Titanic in dry dock, 1912. Here you can see the scale of the person standing next to one of the propellers.
The headquarters of Benito Mussoliniand the Italian Fascist party –Rome 1930
Folsom Street in San Francisco, after the great earthquake of 1906
A distant Kremlin is seen in this 1852 photo of Moscow, Russia
British rear gunner practicing shooting in a moving model cockpit on rails. World War I
Henry Ford's modified Model T, the “Universal Car” –1918
German flag at half mast after the Hindenburg accident in Washington, D.C. 1937
Mona Lisa being returned to its home at the Louvre in Paris, France after WW2 1945
NASA before Powerpoint. Life Magazine
Niagara Falls during the freeze of 1911. You can see people walking right at the bottom of the frozen waterfall
The original Piggly Wiggly Store, Memphis, Tennessee. The first self service grocery store, opened 1916
A vending machine that sold cigarettesalready lit for a penny. England, 1931
Douglas MacArthur signingtheofficial acceptanceofJapanese surrender - 1945 –
The office of Albert Einstein taken on the day that he died April 18, 1955
Last photo of Lenin alive. who by then was completely voiceless 1923